if you were gonna get one of these quotes as a tattoo, which would yo pick?
 

"if a body meet a body coming through the rye"

"if a body catch a body coming through the rye"

??

#2 keeps brining "Catcher in the Rye" to mind. I like that subtext, so I'd go with 2, comrade.

What are you trying to convey with your tattoo? I do think that the choice (#1 vs.#2) is significant. In catcher in the rye Holden gets the lyric wrong. If you're referencing the book, isn't "meet" versus "catch", knowledge of sex versus protection from knowledge of sex?

While you're at it get a second tattoo explaining the first... prepare to get LOTS of questions regarding WTF it means.

I think you should dispense with both quotes, and just get the entirety of Robert Burns' "Address to a Haggis" tattooed over your chest and stomach.

yea, it depends on what you want to directly reference, the poet robert burns or the phony holden caulfield. (looove that book, btw)

I vote for Holden's version! :)

I find it odd that you would ask us. If you don't feel strongly about it either way, why would you want in permanently marked on your skin?

Well, I was pretty drunk at the time I wrote the above

"i am drunk!"

I think this would make a good one:

"Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."